For Iranian metal musician Nikan Khosravi, music is a way to articulate protest. Having lived under state repression, metal, as he explains in this personal essay, helped him to stay candid with himself and to express his dark feelings.
Woher kommt die Motivation, ein Festival für Musik aus Iran und der iranischen Diaspora zu organisieren? In diesem Text erinnert sich Klangteppich-Festivalmacherin Franziska Buhre an eine prägende Reise nach New Orleans im Jahre 2016.
The tracks in the June playlist are a current source of inspiration for the Mexico City-based musician El irreal Veintiuno. It consists of a bunch of tracks somewhere located between experimental electronic music, tribal and dembow.
An expanding group of Malian TikTokers amuses its audiences with funny virals, influenced by the country’s war-torn context. Here, our author asks: what can these audiovisual snapshots tell about the precarity between conflict and entertainment?
In this introduction to his book «Sawt, Bodies, Species», Gilles Aubry situates his research project on the sonic dimensions of our environment, tracing alternate genealogies of sound, listening, and technology in North Africa.
Informed by Ramia Beladel’s research on Sufi healing, this sound piece relies on trance and self-reconfiguration. The soundtrack includes sounds recorded during an annual celebration of the local saint in Moulay Bouchta, Morocco.
This playlist by Magis aka Magista Aristyo consists of tracks from artists and musicians from and near the city of Bandung, Indonesia. The selected music is based on his memories from the city.
Dreamlike states, magical realism, and suspended reality. Enjoy a new mind-bending list of music videos from rural and urban Egypt ranging from light-hearted pop to grim electronic dance music.
Listen to this playlist of various artists from Nairobi, Kenya, and their current releases. Curated by EA Wave (East African Wave) from Nairobi. EA Wave is a producer-driven music label/collective pushing the boundaries of East African art.
Hearing or listening is not a mere execution of the ear’s physiology. It is culturally relative. Yet, whenever hearing happens, the borderland between the audible and inaudible has already been crossed. Read an essay exploring the multiple potentials of acoustic perception.
How one measures time influences how one thinks. In his unedited essay draft, commissioned by the MaerzMusik Festival 2023, the composer Jakob Ullmann reflects on how the mechanical clock in Western Europe has influenced the composition and making of music.
